Cloth board or reel.



S. B. THOMSON.

CLOTH BOARD 0R REEL.

APPLICATION FILED 1ULY12. 1915.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

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CLOTH BOARD OR REEL.

Application filed July 12, 1915.

To (ZZZ 11171-0772 it or (13 concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. THOMSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Cloth Boards or Reels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

The objects of my invention are to provide a cloth-board or reel for woven silk or other fabrics, formed from an integral sheet of material so folded as to form adjacent internal receptacles or boxes which are inclosed within by the enveloping flaps of the blank, the walls of the interior boxes to reinforce and strengthen the reel, and to so construct a cloth-board or reel which will be simple in construction, strong, light and durable.

The invention consists of a rectangular reel havin a plurality of internal adjacent boxes all formed from an integral blank, the flaps of which envelop the internal boxes and caps, one fitting over each end of the reel as shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure l is an illustration in perspective of my completed clothboard or reel. Fig. 2 shows the blankin perspective partially folded and illustrates the method of folding the same; Fig. 3 shows plan View of the blank cut and prepared for folding, as indicated by dotted lines; Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line l'l of Fig. 1 illustrating the reinforcing walls of the internal boxes; Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a portion of a reel, the end of which is not provided with the cap 0, shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of a reel showing fabric wound thereon, portion of the reel and fabric being broken away leaving part of the reel projecting beyond the fabric.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The most noticeable feature of my clothboard is the absence of wood or metal in the construction thereof.

The cloth-board is made substantially rectangular in shape, the ends being flat and the longitudinal edges being semi-circular in form. These cloth-boards are sometimes called bolt-boards and various other names, and are used by manufacturers as receptacles Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

Serial No. 39,508.

- broken end of the reel to project from the broken off portion of the silk fabric, which illustrates the method of winding the wovengoods upon the reel or cloth-board, the central portion represented by dotted lines being the reel R and the outer portion being the woven silk fabric S.

Fig. 1 shows my completed cloth-board or reel which is constructed from the blank B, shown in Fig. 3. Said blank is cut out as shown in Fig. 3 and the flaps -a are bent over on the outer lines shown in said figure, to form boxes B, B, B and B*, which four boxes are in turn folded over, as shown in Fig. 2, making the double compartments B and B adjoining each other in the middle portion of the blank B, a-'a forming the outer ends of B and B, and the side flaps A and D are then turned over the double compartments B and B and a cap C of similar or other suitable material is secured over each end of the reel thus formed, as shown in Fig. 1. The sides and ends a and a of the internal boxes act as braces, reinforcing and strengthening the clothboard or reel and giving it the necessary rigidity for properly holding the fabric wound upon the reel.

It is obvious that my reel so constructed from paper board, vegetable fiber board or other suitable substance, is so braced longitudinally and transversely, by the tiers of internal adjacent compartments or boxes, as to obviate the necessity and to avoid the objections of or to a wooden or metal frame. As shown in the drawings there are tiers of parallel, internal adjacent boxes, or inter nal boxes placed one above the other, some transversely and some longitudinally of the reel. The parallel compartments, B and B, folded together form the compartment B, the parallel compartments B and B* folded together form the compartment B The compartments B and B folded over on the blank B, form two parallel, adjacent interior compartments inclosed by the overlapping fiaps A and D of the blank B, thus reinforcing or strengthening the reel, R, both longitudinally and transversely. There are thus tiers of internal compartments, or compartments one above the other, in both directions. The result is a reel or 'clotheboard having all the requisites andadvantages of simplicity, durability, lightness, strength and inexpensiveness.

It is also obvious that such a cloth-board or reel is not apt to split, check or warp, and may be produced of vegetable fiber board of any desired strength and thickness. The tiers of internal adjacent compartments or boxes may be permanently united to the enveloping or outer flaps by any suitable adhesive substance or not, without departing from the scope of the invention.

Caps C may be secured permanently to the ends of the reels or not. Said caps may be made to fit sufficiently snug as to efficiently hold the folded portions of the blank in proper position for use, without the employment of any adhesive substance.

In the relative arrangement of the tiers of parallel boxes one upon the other, both transversely and longitudinally, I secure and provide a reel of great utility and durability, the purpose thereof being to give strength, rigidity, lightness and long life to the reel by preventing the collapse of the reel so that the reel will retain its shape and be adapted to hold the fabric so that it will lie fiat and smooth on the reel.

It is not intended to limit the invention to empty internal compartments or boxes for the purpose of reinforcing and strengthening longitudinally and transversely a reel or cloth-board composed of an integral blank, folded as shown and described, as said compartments may be utilized for the purpose of carrying a non-metallic or other substance for reinforcing or other purposes.

I claim 1. A cloth-board or reel for the purpose specified, comprising a blank constructed of a single piece of material, including a central rectangular portion, end portions provided with foldable flaps to form a plurality of compartments adapted to be folded over on and to occupy adj acently the central longitudinal portion of the first mentioned central rectangular portion and adapted'to be enveloped and inclosed by the foldable sides of said central rectangular portion.

2. A cloth-board or reel for the purpose specified, comprising a blank constructed of a single piece of material, including a central rectangular portion, end portions provided with foldable flaps to form a plurality of compartments adapted to be folded over on and to occupy adj acently the central longitudinal portion of the first mentioned central rectangular portion and adapted to be enveloped and inclosed by the foldable sides of said central rectangular portion, in com blnation wlth caps adapted to fit snugly In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL B. THOMSON. Witnesses:

JOHN F. KERR, Bnssrn BERLINER.

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